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I appreciate you joining us for another monthly engineering newsletter. This month’s question is, what is your favourite use of circuits?
I’m big on renewables and clean technology right now… maybe it’s because I drive an electric car! But I’ve been thinking about building a little solar powered circuit for my shed to power a light. Not to mention logic circuits. Thanks,
My favourite use of circuits is to control something: a motor, a light, or a sequence of events. Nowadays I like doing hobby projects in Arduino.
I am always inspired with the newsletter topics and help from Gavin Simone. Thanks !
My favorite use of circuits is one of the most simple… a light. Take a power source, an LED or bulb, add a switch (either manual or automatic) and maybe a lens to change color. Look around us and note the the applications are nearly limitless. From a simple flashlight to a big Jumbotron, smartphone screens, and fibre optics. Take away our lights, modern society is no longer modern.
My favorite use of circuits is a simple circuit that lights an LED with a 1.5 V battery which I built for my kid to play with.
Intesting to see them use it at rail stations/yards!
Would love to help my kids learn about circuits.
My favourite use of circuits is in power supply, being able to produce clean, high amperage DC power with small switching circuits always impresses me!
I will use it to be a convenient tool to explain the circuits for my nine years son.
I like making circuits to control dc motors that can be deployed to maneuver home monitoring cameras, garage shutter, etc.
Many many years ago I was amazed with how to build a simply radio with no battery using the crystal radio circuit
I use circuits to teach my daughters about energy, electricity, lights, how batteries work, etc.
I was in high school when I did a science project with support from my physics teacher. We bought individual solar cells and connected them in series and parallel to understand the potential difference and current distributions in various arrangements.
My elder brother got so inspired by the potential of the PV cells, that he started his own business venture for installing solar rooftop panels for residential and industrial roofs. Today 6 years down the lane, it is a successful venture.
I would love to win this game and teach my kids, and nephews the basics of circuits.
My favourite use of circuits is for electric cars. I hope that in the next decade or so that the majority of vehicles on the road are electric as it is a great way to reduce emissions.
My favorite use of circuits is in off shore wind farms. It is just amazing to know how these are connected and bring electricity back to the land we live in.
My favorite use of circuits is Printed Circuit Board (PCB), which is a laminated sandwich structure of conductive and insulating layers. It has various applications such as electronics, LEDs, medical devices, telecommunications equipment etc.
My favorite use of circuits is in the RFID key fobs. I don’t often work with circuits anymore, but it was neat to pull a broken one apart, see the winding of copper, and realize it’s a cool little circuit!